Vinu Morais

“She wasn't respected here, but she was feared, and fear had been very kind to Geeta.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“But you also can’t be a doormat. So you must exercise kindness and judgment. Not everyone will deserve your kindness. When they show you they’re not worthy, believe them.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

“The problem with being the only woman in a play in which the three other characters were men and the playwright was a man and the director was a man was that no matter what I said, I sounded petulant, female.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea